[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 22. Aug 2018, at 17:35, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
> I assume you mean no addr:housenumber and no addr:housename.
> 
> What's wrong with noaddress=yes?
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noaddress



the wiki says noaddress is for places without an address, but the places I have in mind do have an address, they have a street, postcode, city, just no housenumber. While it is against the formal requirements set up by national institutions, it is still a quite frequent situation in the countryside.

If there is a shop or restaurant it might be arguable to repeat the business name as addr:housename on the address object, but usually in these cases the address object is the same as the business object (in the osm representation), so I enter only name and don’t duplicate.

Cheers,
Martin